I had the pleasure of spending some time with Cleveland Robinson's youngest son, Jeffrey and his wife Adel, over the weekend. The one guy his father would love to hook up again with is legendary producer Bert DeCoteaux, as he lost touch with him years ago.

'Flynny' I'd like to know the answer to that question too. During my research on Patti Austin material I found that Bert de Coteaux produced many of her recordings for the Coral label. I'd be interested to hear about other people that he produced. George

Bert DeCoteaux arranged my personal favorite Maxine Brown track- "Can't Get Along Without You"; the whole atmosphere of this record is INCREDIBLE: guitar and strings are just beautiful. Bob Finiz (who did the Brenda/Tabulations stuff, and I think maybe also wrote a track for the Lovin Spoonful??!) produced it, I can't remember the writers names. (I don't think they were well known)

I love many Main Indgredient cuts also which Bert was involved with...anyone else have any more recommendations??

I assume, hopefully, that Bert DeCoteaux is alive and well. When I said he produced many Patti Austin tracks, I meant to say that 18/22 Coral recordings were arranged and directed by him in New York, during 1965 to 1967,somewhere. My guess is that although they were on the Coral/Decca label, they were probably recorded at the CBS studios? The producer of those sessions was Henry Jerome, whatever happened to him? All the Coral tracks appeared on a CD called 'Take Away The Pain Stain' 2 years ago and tracks included Leave a Little Love, Earl, Loosen Up Your Heart, Take Your Time, This Thing Called Love, What A Diff'rence A Day Makes and so on. Geo